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From: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HFS/MFS
Message-ID: <485@auscso.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 12:00:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: auscso.485
Posted: Wed Oct 14 12:00:54 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Oct-87 01:11:59 EDT
References: <1005@oakhill.UUCP> <7304@dartvax.UUCP> <241@cantuar.UUCP>
Reply-To: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett)
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Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX
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Keywords: 800k MFS RamStart Standard File
Summary: Don't use old software...:-)

In article <241@cantuar.UUCP> james@cantuar.UUCP (J. Collier) writes:
>Earle R. Horton (earleh@dartvax.UUCP) writes:
> ...
>>Why you would need an 800k MFS floppy completely escapes me. 
>
>   RamStart users find 800k MFS floppies quite useful.
>   I usually set RamStart as the startup application, and have it copy the 
>System, Finder and whatever else I require. The easiest way to do this is to
>place RamStart in the System folder. (You could use a startup document, but..)
>   By using an MFS floppy and keeping the various system initialisation files
>(Appleshare, MacsBug etc.) outside the system folder, you can avoid wasting ~50k
>of RamDisk (or rather, avoid the effort of dragging the icons into the rubbish
>bin).

Ramstart 1.4 or later, I believe, support specific file specification.  One
is expected to specify the files/folders that are to be copied on the HFS disk.
The feature is fully documented within the program. 


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